OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Language Assessment Quarterly is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing Interactional Competence: ICE versus a Human Partner	21
Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Language Testing for Citizenship Through LAMAS (Language Accreditation for Migration Attitudes Scale)	16
Aligning Language Frameworks: An Example with the CLB and CEFR	15
Content Analysis of Test Taker Responses on an AP Japanese Computer-Simulated Conversation Test: A Mixed Methods Approach for A Validity Argument	14
An Interview with Timothy Francis McNamara	12
Validity Arguments for Automated Essay Scoring of Young Students’ Writing Traits	12
Looking Back and Forward: Language Assessment Insights from Constant Leung	12
Extra Time as an Access Arrangement in Digital Listening Tasks for L2 Learners with Literacy Difficulties	11
L2 writing assessment: An evolutionary perspective	10
Advancing Language Assessment with AI and ML–Leaning into AI is Inevitable, but Can Theory Keep Up?	10
A Review on Language Assessment Literacy: Trends, Foci and Contributions	9
The Role of Gazing Behaviors in Navigating Paired Role-Play Interactional Competence Assessment Tasks	9
Washback into an Ecosystem of Teaching, Learning and Testing within Asia and Beyond: An Interview with Liying Cheng	8
The Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students with Different English Language Proficiency Profiles	8
Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Writing Classroom	8
Assessing English for Professional Purposes	7
The Passage is Too Brief for Comprehension: On the Construct Validity of the English Reading Section in the Korean College Scholastic Ability Test	7
At the Interface of Language Testing and Language Teaching: An Interview with Lianzhen He	7
The Development and Initial Validation of O-WSVLT, a Meaning-Recall Online L2 Spanish Vocabulary Levels Test	7
Automatic Speaking Assessment of Spontaneous L2 Finnish and Swedish	6
The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice	6
Learning to Assess: Cultivating Assessment Capacity in Teacher Education	6
Dimensionality of Written Accuracy: Exploring the Factor Structure of Linguistic Accuracy Measures	6
Developing and Validating a Computerized Adaptive Testing System for Measuring the English Proficiency of Taiwanese EFL University Students	5
Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice *Learning-Oriented Language Assessment: Putting Theory into Practice*	5

A Study on Peer Mediation in Dynamic Assessment of Translation Revision Competence	5
Second Language Identity: Awareness, Ideology, and Assessment in Higher Education	4
Investigating Second Language (L2) Reading Subskill Associations: A Cognitive Diagnosis Approach	4
Assessing Academic English for Higher Education Admissions	4
Gazing into Cognition: Eye Behavior in Online L2 Speaking Tests	4
Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing: Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice.	4
Promoting Change in Language Teaching and Assessment at Policy and Practice Levels: An Interview with Hossein Farhady	4
Informing Q-Matrix Specification with Exploratory Factor Analysis in Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment of Language Comprehension	4
Application of Bi-factor MIRT and Higher-order CDM Models to an In-house EFL Listening Test for Diagnostic Purposes	3
L2 Speaking Assessment in Secondary School Classrooms in Japan	2
Remote Proctoring in Language Testing: Implications for Fairness and Justice	2
The Role of Vocabulary in Speaking: Voices from Learners and Raters	2
Comparability Between Graded Readers and the Common Test in Japan in Terms of Text Difficulty Perceived by Learners	2
Fostering Self-Regulated Young Writers: Dynamic Assessment of Metacognitive Competence in Secondary School EFL Class	2
Test Review: ACTFL Assessment of Performance Toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL)	2
An Empirical Evaluation of Lexical Diversity Indices in L2 Korean Writing Assessment	2
Validity Arguments in Language Testing: Case Studies of Validation Research	2
Twenty Years of Language Assessment Quarterly : An Interview with LAQ Founder Antony Kunnan	2
Another Generation of Fundamental Considerations in Language Assessment: A Festschrift in Honor of Lyle F. Bachman	2
Developing a Scenario-Based English Language Assessment in an Asian University	1
Talking and Thinking About Systems: An Interview with Nick Saville	1
Test Review: LanguageCert IESOL B1 (Achiever) SELT	1
Test Takers’ Attitudes Toward Varieties of Accents in Listening Tasks of the Duolingo English Test (2021 test version)	1
Examining the Scoring of Content Integration in a Listening-Speaking Test: A G-Theory Analysis	1
Reconsidering Context in Language Assessment: Transdisciplinary Perspectives, Social Theories, and Validity	1
Advancing L2 Dynamic Assessment: Innovations in Chinese Contexts	1
In Memoriam: Timothy Francis McNamara (1949-2023)	1
Dynamic Assessment of the Learning Potential of Chinese as a Second Language	1
Using Multistage Testing to Enhance Measurement of an English Language Proficiency Test	1
Promoting Learning Potential among Students of L2 Chinese through Dynamic Assessment	1
Technology-Enhanced Items in Grades 1–12 English Language Proficiency Assessments	1
On the Interplay Between Conceptions of Assessment and Assessment Agency: Perspectives of Iranian EFL Preservice Teachers	1
EFL Development of Micro Reading Abilities: The Impact of Three Intervention Approaches Informed by Diagnostic Language Assessment	1